I have enjoyed playing the SimCity series for years, but Banished knocks it out of the park! Beautiful graphics combined with an intuitive interface that is easy to manage and learn. While it is elementarily easy to grow your population in the SimCity series, this one is realistically challenging. If you overlook doing something it will really make you pay at some point in the game. The best part is that there is no money budget so no loans to get you out of and or possibly into greater trouble!